NICE work if you can get it, Mr. Editor, sitting in the House on the Hill. The Man in charge, and that would be the Premier, told MPs late last Friday night that we would be going on an eight-week sojourn from debate and not return until Friday, May ...
March 17, 2005
Dear Sir,
Re: The many articles based on foreign/ long term resident workers taking Bermudian jobs. Based primarily on Parks and Works staff striking.
I am half Swedish, and have always been interested in the dynamics of social interac...
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And former West End Member of Parliament and UBP chairman Kit Astwood says the Progressive Labour Party's reluctance to put the question of Independence to the people in the form of a referendum is likely based on the "cheap and dishonest" premise ...
The BIC yesterday defended its decision to invite the United Nations Decolonisation Committee (Special Committee of 24, or SC-24) to Bermuda against criticism from the United Bermuda Party.
Eleven members from the SC-24 will be arriving on the Island...
THE Bermuda Independence Commission proposed that it would investigate whether the UK's Privy Council should remain Bermuda's final court of appeal, but the proposed Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), the only recognised alternative, has already been ...
Why Bermudians should listen to Sir Ronald's views
March 15, 2005
SIR Ronald Sanders comments about the subject of Independence and the merits of a referendum versus a General Election being held to decide the question are most revealing (Mid-Ocean N...
The Bermuda Independence Commission public meetings will start next week, with the first one scheduled on Thursday, March 24 at the Warwick Workman's Club.
The commission will be taking written and oral submissions at the meeting. Yesterday chairman ...
BERMUDA'S pre-clearance privileges with the US "would not radically change" if the island were to go Independent.
That was what four members of the Bermuda Independence Commission heard when they met with US officials during a fact-finding mission la...
DATE: Mar 18, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
"This whole BIC exercise is misguided, in the sense that Bermudians are not interested at this time," said Mr. Moniz. "It is clear and undeniable that they are not interested, based on the results of several polls that have been taken."
Mr. Moniz als...
BERMUDA Independence Commission chairman Bishop Vernon Lambe yesterday criticised Opposition Leader Dr. Grant Gibbons' opinion that the United Nations decolonisation committee has no role to play in Bermuda's Independence debate.
At a press conferenc...
DATE: Mar 18, 2005 | CATEGORY: Other | AUTHOR: Jonathan Kent
